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Old Books Relevant to the History of the REC
 
George
David Cummins
(1822-1876)
On November 10, 1873, he notified Bishop Smith that he was setting out
to do God's work elsewhere, left his post in Kentucky, and removed
himself to New York City. There, after meetings with other like
minded clergy and laity on December 2, 1873, he organized officially
what was to become the "Reformed Episcopal Church."
http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_cumminsGD.html
Sorted Out
Book Review by John M.
Campbell
"For the Union of Evangelical
Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians," by The
Rev. Allen C. Guelzo, Ph.D.
If you'd
like to understand the Anglican cedar in America, as well as the
Reformed Episcopal twig of it, read this brilliantly researched,
engagingly written book by the Rev. Dr. Alan Carl Guelzo. Dr. Guelzo is
the former academic dean of Reformed Episcopal Seminary in
Philadelphia, where he taught apologetics and church history. While
there he was a voice for the "New School" RE's, if you will, who seek
to re-establish the evangelical, reformed, Anglican identity the REC
was founded to perpetuate. This book recounts that original vision,
what made it necessary, our forgetfulness, and our remembrance.
http://www.trinityrechurch.org/etc-sorted-out.html
The Story of Bishop Cummings
Withdrawal
The Free Church of
England
In 1876, the Free Church of England received its orders from the
Reformed Episcopal Church which originated when the Rt Rev George
Cummings withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1873. The two
churches united in 1927.
The story of Bishop Cummings withdrawal is told by Revd Dr
William Wilson Manross in his History of the American Episcopal
Church, (1959). After describing Cummings' irenic resolution of
1865, following the Civil War [p292/3] the author goes on to give us
the picture of a peace loving evangelical who was forced by his
conscience to go a separate way:
http://www.fcofe.freeserve.co.uk/
The Reformed Episcopal Church
A
Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Chicago
Sunday Evening, December 7, 1873
by the Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, D.D.
Chicago: Perry, Morris & Sultzer, 1874.
"But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning
this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against."--Acts 28:22
Project Canterbury
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/usa/rec/cec_dec1873.html
The History & Founding Principles
of the Reformed Episcopal Church
On November 10, 1873 the Assistant Bishop of Kentucky of the Protestant
Episcopal Church wrote his letter of resignation to the Rt. Rev.
Benjamin Bosworth Smith, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Diocese of Kentucky.
http://rechurch.org/history.htm
The
Declaration of Principles and Their Historic Context
In the 19th Century, major changes occurred in the Anglican Communion,
especially in the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. As a result
of a liberal movement in the previous century (18th), some began to
argue that the English Reformation was wrong and that Anglicanism
should return to a more Medieval Church.
To do so, however, meant a significant departure from historic
Episcopalianism. As a result, there was a concern on the part of others
to protect what can be called the Anglicanism of the English
Reformation.
http://www.providencerec.org/history/declaration.html
The Lambeth Conference and the Reformed Episcopal Church
The 1941 Report submitted to the Bishops of the Anglican
Communion concerning the validity of Holy Orders of the Reformed
Episcopal Church
Project Canterbury
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/orders/orders2.html
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